If any person shall conspire, and attempt any invasion, insurrection,
or publick Rebellion against this Jurisdiction,
or shall endeavour to surprize, or seize any Plantation, or
Town, any Fortification, Platform, or any great Guns, provided
for the defence of the Jurisdiction, or any Plantation
therein; or shall treacherously and perfidiously attempt
the alteration and subversion of the frame of policy, or
fundamentall Government laid, and setled for this Jurisdiction,
he or they shall be put to death. Num. 16. 2 Sam.
18. 2 Sam. 20. Or if any person shall consent unto any such
mischievous practice, or by the space of foure and twenty
houres conceale it, not giving notice thereof to some Magistrate,
if there be any Magistrate in the Plantation, or
place where he liveth, or if none, to some Deputy for the
Jurisdiction, or to the Constable of the place, that the publick
safety may be seasonably provided for, he shall be put
to death, or severely punished, as the Court of Magistrates
weighing all circumstances shall determine.